Carol Bartz

Yahoo's French engineers are going on strike to protest Carol Bartz's plan to shut down an R center in France that was opened only a year ago. Closing the center will cause 78 engineers to lose their jobs, about a third of the company's French ...  

Speaking at the UBS Media Conference, Carol Bartz said the Tiger Woods scandal has been awesome for Yahoo, as users trickle through all its sites from gossip to sports. More on Yahoo!  

Carol Bartz is making a pretty quick study of the Internet's past (and future?). In quotes that appeared in Ad Age and Paid Content, no-nonsense Bartz acknowledged that the Internet had over-sold itself to advertisers at the outset. Ad Age captured ...  

Speaking at the UBS Media Conference, Carol Bartz said the Tiger Woods scandal has been awesome for Yahoo, as users trickle through all its sites from gossip to sports. It's been even better for Yahoo than Michael Jackson. Read the rest of this story »See Also:Yahoo Asks Users Which Ads They Want To See (YHOO)Yahoo Confirms: Holiday Blowout Cancelled (YHOO)Why Yahoo Can't Let Search Share Keep Slipping (MSFT, YHOO)  

CEO Carol Bartz at an investor conference Tuesday illustrate how major Internet channels and niche publications are benefiting from the Woods controversy. Known for her off-color commentary, Bartz said the Woods story is "better than Michael Jackson ...  

Carol Bartz’s candid style and decisiveness have lifted morale and added clarity to Yahoo's mission. She’s unveiled a dramatic home-page revamp, and jettisoned moribund aspects of the company’s online network. For these reasons and more, Bartz has been named a finalist for MarketWatch’s CEO of the Year award for 2009.  

Asked about the disparity between online media usage and internet ad spending at UBS Media Week, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said that the gap was in part because internet advertising had initially over-sold itself: “I think internet advertising oversold itself at the beginning, over-promised preciseness.” That, however, she said, was beginning to change. “Things are looking up. We’re seeing marketers engage.” Some other highlights from...  

“God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place. It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral.” — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz tells a UBS conference that Tiger...  

Online fascination with the apparent infidelities of golf idol Tiger Woods has been a boon for Yahoo!, the firm's blunt-talking chief executive Carol Bartz said Tuesday."God bless Tiger," Bartz said while discussing Yahoo! user traffic and display advertising at UBS Investment Bank's annual Global Media and Communications Conference here."This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place...  

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz offered well-heeled investors, bankers and media executives a sampling of her sassy, straight-shooting style Tuesday at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. During a luncheon question-and-answer session with UBS analysts and attendees, Bartz covered a variety of topics ranging from the current ad market to Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft to the beneficial impact of Tiger Woods' travails on...  

Who needs Michael Jackson when you’ve got Tiger Woods? That’s essentially the view of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz, who spoke on Tuesday at an investment bank’s media conference.“God bless Tiger,” Bartz said, according to the Wall Street Journal, when asked how the sex scandal of the world’s first billion-dollar ...(137 words)  

Apple's stock price since Steve Jobs became "interim CEO" (chart: Yahoo Finance) According to the report, since Jobs returned to Apple, the company's market value has increased by a whopping $150bn. That's the kind of performance that gets you dubbed ...  

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc ( YHOO.O ) CEO Carol Bartz put a 'for sale' sign on HotJobs on Tuesday, saying Yahoo was open to selling the non-core unit for the right price even though an improving economy could help its prospects. Rates ...  

A total of 78 employees, who were generating on average more than €1 million a year each toward's Yahoo's revenue stream , struck today. The office represents over a third of Yahoo's workforce in France. Since taking the reigns as CEO, Carol Bartz ...  

Tiger Woods may be losing fans in some quarters , but he has one in Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s chief executive. “God bless Tiger,” she said during an investors conference Tuesday, for the “huge” uptick in Web traffic he has generated over the ...